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Swiss nuclear power and the case for long-term operation
Designed for 40 years but built to last far longer, Switzerland’s nuclear power plants have all entered long-term operation. Yet age alone says little about safety or performance. Through continuous upgrades, strict regulatory oversight, and extensive aging management, the country’s reactors are being prepared for decades of continued operation, in line with international practice.
Yassin A. Hassan, Omar Rais
Nuclear Technology | Volume 95 | Number 1 | July 1991 | Pages 77-86
Technical Paper | Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow | doi.org/10.13182/NT91-A34569
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The current version of the RELAP5/MOD2 computer code underpredicts the degree of superheat in the secondary side of the steam generator bundles. Many studies have concluded that this is due to overprediction of the interphase drag force. New interphase drag correlations have been developed for the bubbly and slug regimes. These correlations were implemented in the current version of the RELAP5/MOD2 computer code. Steady-state conditions for 65, 75, and 100% power loads of 30-tube once-through steam generator tests are simulated. The calculated primary- and secondary-side temperature profiles show that the new interphase drag correlations achieve closer agreement with experimental data than the temperature profiles of the original code.